SHILLONG FREEDOM FOREVER, INDIA

Investment in space exploration would give seven times return to any economy of the world which embarks on such missions, NASA Astronaut Mik...

One of winter’s enduring ballads, as narrated by the twangs of a “Dhunuri” moving from one chilly lane to another crying out for people to m...

Maldives held its cabinet meeting underneath the pristine Indian Ocean, Nepal atop the sun-kissed Mt. Everest and now Meghalaya’s tourism de...

Little Pinki might have lived her dream when she skipped and smiled her way on the red carpet to Kodak Studios earlier this year, but Asma...

If you thought all’s not fair with fairness cream, think again. Many Indians do feel it’s fair to delve deep into their pockets to have a pa...

Come over to Iewduh (Bara Bazaar) on any easy afternoon and you may stumble upon porters dreaming leisurely at some quite uninvited corner o...

Every autumn season, the main market places here are flooded everyday with colourful silk worms, not for silk production, but for consumptio...

“In this island are also found certain trees, the leaves of which, when they fall, are animated, and walk. They are like the leaves of the...

What does Zoology got to do with folklore? Why would a college teacher of that subject enroll in a refresher course on Folkloristic and Semi...

Boule after 600 million years is increasingly producing “lazy drowsy sperms”, which just aren’t interested to swim to the nearest egg to fer...

The 42 wagons loaded with timber seized in Guwahati this month is part of a 118 wagon-load of timber consignment from Dimapur railway statio...

FIFA’s norm for an International football pitch is about 100 by 75 meter, but this “International” football field is weirdly numbered 1267/1...

Think Cannabis. Think anti-drug laws world over. Flashback, sitting blissfully on the banks of Malana River near the Himalayas, high on Mala...